Quiz 2

Question 1

Richard Owen

Answer 1

coined the term Dinosauria

Question 2

Jacques Gauthier

Answer 2

used cladistics to argue for a monophyletic dinosauria

Question 3

What is Dinosauria apart of?

Answer 3

Ornithodira

Question 4

What two things come out of Dinosauria

Answer 4

Ornithiscia

Saurischia

Question 5

Herrerasauridae

Answer 5

Bizarre anatomy

not the direct ancestors for any group

Acetabulum only partly open

Question 6

Dinosauromorpha

Answer 6

Lagosuchus
Lagerpetidae
Dinosauriformes

Synapmorphy: Ascending astragalar process on front surface of tiba

Question 7

Lagerpetidae

Answer 7

small gracile creatures

closed acetabulum

hook shaped femur

Question 8

Dinosauriformes

Answer 8

Marasuchus
Silesauridae
Dinosauria

Synapomorphy: Partially to fully perforated acetabulum

Question 9

Silesauridae

Answer 9

long-legged

mostly herbivorous

Middle-Upper Triassic

lowest ones have conical teeth, highest have folidont teeth

Question 10

Creationist Thoughts

Answer 10

There are some Triassic animals that are similar to dinosaurs and look like ancestors

these animals are very unique and shows up at the same time as dinosaurs

Various dinosaur groups show up in the fossil record with this pattern repeated throughout the record

different kinds of created dinosaurs

exact taxonomy of dinos does not matter much for creationism